Phone: 513-741-7035

Email: thom@therisingtidegroup.com

Services

Basic Client Services

  • Diverse Supplier Outreach, Engagement: Identify and drive opportunities to increase procurement with minority and women owned businesses.
  • Diverse Supplier Utilization Proposal Development Assist with preparation and execution of your organizations diverse supplier Inclusion spend plan, including utilization strategy, executional tactics and goals
  • Diversity Education, Training and Development (internal/External) Provide mentoring, educational, and marketing skills development assistance to diverse suppliers
  • Supplier Diversity Management Consulting: Serve as the primary adviser regarding diversity practices that support and drive your organizations M/W/DBE and/or Small business development strategy and initiatives
  • Program Assessment or Development – Analysis of your organizations existing diverse supplier outreach and engagement strategies or initiatives, and recommend enhancements to deliver a competitive advantage for your organization

Diverse Supplier and Small Business Services

  • Fact Finding – Review your business environment to identify potential new corporate and/or tier one business development opportunities
  • Critical Success Contact List – Creation of a target list of potential opportunities
  • Qualify Potential Opportunities – Review each potential opportunity against your qualification criteria
  • Action Plan Building Sessions -Assist with proposal development
  • Implementation Process – Establish Sales Cycle and milestones
  • OUTREACH and Engagement – Identification of Supplier diversity professionals and by category opportunity Decision Makers by organization
  • Sales Training – Strategic and Features/Benefits Selling Skills development
  • Value Proposition Document – Capabilty statement and elevator speech document development
  • Formal Certification Process – Why Certification Is Important – Value Proposition – Feature/Benefits (National Certification) and ROI